Masafuera Rayadito

Aphrastura masafuerae

Critically Endangered · IUCN Red List

CRCritically EndangeredEndemicInvertebratesForestCavity nestTiny · 12 g

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The Masafuera rayadito is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a poorly defined buff-brown supercilium on a dusky face. Their forehead is whitish with narrow rufous streaks and their crown is dark dusky brown. Their back is dull brown and their rump rufous-brown. Their wing coverts are blackish with tawny tips and their flight feathers are blackish with dull rufous bases. Their tail is mostly rufous with blackish bases on all but the central pair of feathers; the ends of the feathers lack barbs, giving a spiny appearance. Voice: As of September 2023, neither xeno-canto nor the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had any recordings of Masafuera rayadito vocalizations. Its call is described as "a low churring 'trrrt' c. 1·2 seconds long, singly or repeated".

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When to see the Masafuera Rayadito

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 2 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

About the Masafuera Rayadito

The Masafuera rayadito is a Critically Endangered species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is endemic to Alejandro Selkirk Island in the Juan Fernández Islands of Chile.

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